To be fair, Kulthum was as close to royalty as a singer could get in a culture where women in the arts were still rare.

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Marrakesh (Morocco) (AFP) – It took Egyptian actor Mona Zaki more than a year's preparation to take on the hardest role of her career -- the iconic singer Umm Kulthum, a legend in the Arab world.

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